Chapter 9

Roy was up and in the barn before the sun reached the horizon, the horses were happy to see him. One by one he cleaned their hooves and inspected the frog nestled in the center. He didn’t find anything but he knew that by checking once or twice weekly that he probably never would. He cleaned the old straw out and cleaned the auto watering device, then put fresh straw down. It was really mindless work, he had been doing this for several years at this point. As he worked he thought about his problem, how to contact the Texas Ranger without being found out. He had to have him make the bust Sunday at six o’clock in the evening, about thirty six hours from now! If he had to be honest and forthright with the Ranger he would tell him everything so that Julie and the other girls would be saved, no matter what the cost to himself. The only way he could come up with was to not divulge who he was but to guide him to “friends” that were helping him hide the witnesses.

Roy went in to wake up his Mom and Sister, they showered together, then had bacon and eggs for breakfast. Roy was hesitant about eating the bacon, but the smell overcame his reluctance. As they cooked and ate they discussed his plan, no one could think of anything better, so they agreed to stay quiet about his identity, until or unless there was no other alternative!

Roy lay down on his bed and touched the photograph in the paper very lightly. He was instantly connected to Lieutenant Brent Martin of the Texas Rangers, seeing what the man was looking at, as well as thinking about, was disconcerting to say the least. All of the stories of the Rangers painted them as virtuous, almost Saintly men, what this man was looking at and thinking about was most definitely as remote to those qualities as you could get! He was looking at the ass of a waitress at the Super 8 truck stop, and he was thinking of several things he would like to do with it! After a moment’s reflection Roy thought to himself that the man was single, he had been divorced for five years and hadn’t had a date in three months, he had picked up that information by skimming his memories. It’s all about context, Roy’s Dad had always said when Roy caught him looking at a beautiful woman. “I can look, I just can’t touch!” The Lieutenant was sitting with several other law enforcement officers, they were discussing missing girls in the area. The girls just seemed to disappear in thin air! One of the officers claimed that it had to be Aliens beaming the girls into their flying saucer! He was only half kidding!

Then the Ranger looked up from the derrière of the waitress and looked at the others at the table, one of them was Sheriff Deputy Sampson! Without thinking he said into the Ranger’s mind, “He’s one of them!” The man dropped his coffee cup, and looked around rather calmly for someone who had just heard a disembodied voice in his head! Out loud he said,

“Did anyone else just hear a voice? I was looking at Sampson when a voice said “And he’s one of them!” Just as clearly as if it was someone standing next to me! Did anyone else hear it!”

They all answered negatively, Deputy Sampson had a guilty look on his face that he was desperately trying to hide! Roy said in the Ranger’s mind,

“Please don’t react, the others can’t hear me, only you can hear me, you don’t have to speak out loud, just think anything you would like to ask me, but only one of your many questions at a time!”

“Who are you, and how are you communicating with me?”

“None of that is important now, what is important is that Deputy Sampson is in the group of people kidnapping the girls from here and several counties around Titus County. He knows where they are being kept, and has kidnapped several of the girls himself! And no you can’t arrest the man here and now, there isn’t any evidence! I suggest you make an Alien joke out of it, like they were telling you he was one of them and would pay the bill!”

The Ranger covered his gaff by saying, “Yes! He’s one of those Aliens and he should buy us our breakfast with the diamonds they use as money!”

All of the men at the table laughed at the joke, even Deputy Sampson, who quipped,

“My wife has all the diamonds, so you have to buy your own breakfasts!”

The officers began harassing the waitress as they each paid for their portion of the meal, they were teasing her as they always did. When the Texas Ranger had gotten into his truck he asked,

“Are you still in my head?”

“Yes sir, I’m still here, I didn’t know who else to talk to! You are new to this area and there is a good chance that you aren’t involved in this scheme to kidnap, train the girls in sex, then make movies, auction them off online, or sell them to brothels in Mexico. Those that cause trouble are killed and their bodies fed to the Judges pigs! Some people are fed to them alive! There are several law enforcement officers involved including Sampson! Judge Horton, Sheriff Ben Stevens of Titus County, Sheriff Sonny Bridges of Franklin County, Dr. Douglas Fairchild, Warden of the Fredrick’s Unit, Dr. Robert Watson, Principal of Mount Pleasant High School, and Senator Hartford and his wife now deceased. Oh and Ben Stevens was shot in his head by Judge Horton on accident yesterday! I don’t know who else, so I don’t trust anyone! Well, I trust some people, I trust you, I’ve looked into your memories and you haven’t interacted with any of those people and you were sent here to specifically investigate the missing girls!”

“How are you doing this, how do you know those people are involved? How do you know those people are dead?”

“I’m going to tell you as much of the truth as I can without revealing who I am! I don’t want to be relegated to a padded cell, or worse, become someone’s lab experiment! I developed this ability recently, I found if I touched a photograph on any type of media, iPad or iPhone, newspapers, yearbooks, anything I could not only see through their eyes I could read their minds, and I can cause them to move or even hurt them.”

“How can you do these things? Move my right arm!”

“I don’t know how all of this works, it just does!” He pushed on the Ranger’s right elbow causing his arm to move up, the back of his hand hit the headliner covering the inside roof of the truck.

“You say that the Senator and his wife are dead, how did they die? They have been missing, along with their two daughters, for several days now, another one of my jobs is to find them!”

“Their daughters, they really aren’t related to them at all, are in a safe place! The Senator and his wife went through a guardrail at over a hundred miles an hour, the car flipped several times before it landed on its top and caught fire. They were going home to whip their two girls thinking they knew who I am! You see I trusted them, they were being very nice to their daughters and three other girls from the Training Center as the fucked them. Other than committing incest, I thought they were good people, but they weren’t. I didn’t find out until after I had told them about what was going on and my ability. I couldn’t let them hurt those girls, so I pressed down on his right knee and the car sped up and crashed like I said! I didn’t know what else to do!”

“The Sheriff died when Judge Horton was going to shoot Dr. John Allen MD in the back as he was running for his life! I pressed on his right arm just as the gun went off, it hit the Sheriff in his head. He may have been fed to the hogs! The Doctor is now with the girls in a safe place. They are all willing to give you all the information you need to make arrests!”

“The problem I have with your story is that you have killed or at least caused three people to die!”

“Only to save other people, and there are a few more, Miss Timmons, a history teacher at the High School, was torturing a girl at the Training Center. I tried to shove her away but she moved and I hit her in the throat. Then yesterday, a man was going to shoot the Doctor as he was running away and I shot him in his left eye with a broadhead arrow! His name was Fredric Hanson and he had an AR-15. Four other men were looking for the Doctor with instructions to kill him and bring his body back to the Judge for a five thousand dollar reward.”

“That makes five people, congratulations you are a mass murder! Keep talking, I’m making notes of your exploits!”

“Look you sanctimonious asshole! Don’t you understand what I am saying, there is a criminal organization that is kidnapping girls, training them as sex slaves, then making money from videos, prostitution, and auctioning them off! All of those people that died were going to cause harm to other people! Right now there are ninety six girls being held in cages in a barn on a three thousand acre ranch, owned by Judge Horton. There is going to be an action Sunday evening at six o’clock, that’s tomorrow evening. You are going to have to work fast to get enough law enforcement people that can be trusted out there to arrest the people who show up! Some are flying into the private airfield on the property! And you want to accuse me of being a mass murderer! Fuck you!”

Roy was just about to give up on this asshole and go to the FBI when.

“Don’t hang up, or whatever you do to disconnect from me, I had to get you to become emotional, it’s often a way to judge the veracity of your story, I believe you! Don’t go away! You said the two girls and the Doctor are in a safe place? Is there a way for me to talk to them?”

“Maybe, you have my heart racing so much I can’t think! They are at a friend’s house about five miles out of town! They don’t know about my ability or about why the Doctor and girls need help! I will talk to them and find out if it’s alright for you to visit. I’ll be back to you in a few minutes!”

Roy stopped talking but stayed connected, he remained silent when the Ranger asked if he was still there twice! He heard a phone being dialed,

“Captain, it’s Brent, I’ve uncovered some interesting evidence and possibly three witnesses that have firsthand knowledge of what is going on here in Titus County! It involves law enforcement in the area as well as a Criminal Court Judge. I’m trying to set up a meeting with the witnesses now. If everything pans out and they confirm what I’ve been told I’m going to need a large group of Rangers here to back me up by one o’clock tomorrow afternoon.”

“Brent you work fast, you’ve been there less than a week and you’re ready to take it down? Let me know when and where you are having your meeting with the Doctor, in case you get into trouble!”

“Okay Captain, I’ll call you back when the meeting time and place are arranged!”

“Brent, do you mind if I call you that?”

“No, that’s fine, what do I call you?”

“Call me Spirit for now! Brent, did you catch anything unusual in what the Captain said? Think back!”

“No, I ... Wait just a minute, he said”it”,”take it down “ not “them” or “him” and then he specifically said “Doctor” I never said who the witnesses were at all! Could he be bad and involved in all of this?”

“Do you have a photograph of him?”

“It just so happens that I do! He opened his iPhone and scrolled through an Album labeled “Banquet 2024” and found the picture he was looking for, enlarging it he pointed to a man standing between two other men.

“That’s Captain Whitherspoon, he’s in charge of the Northeast Division that includes Titus County!”

Roy pulled up Julie’s photo and touched it, instantly connecting with her. He quickly thought about the photo he had looked at and asked,

“Julie, have you ever seen this man? It’s very important that you tell me, but only if you really are very, very sure!”

“Yes, I’ve seen him two or three times, he comes in and gets two girls at a time, fifty four went with him two days ago and returned with bruises on her thighs!”

“Thanks Julie, I’ve got to go now but I’ll check back with you later!”

Reconnecting with Ranger Brent he told him what she had told him, thinking fast Brent called his Captain back,

“Captain, this is Brent again, the lead was a bust, the man had no witnesses or substantive evidence of any kind! Sorry to have bothered you, Sir!”

“Keep digging, someone out there knows something!”

“Yes Sir! I’ll do that!”

“Spirit, are you with me?”

“Yes Brent, I’m here! What can we do now?”

“Do you have internet access, Spirit? Go to the website whoswhointexas.com, it has pictures of every major figure in Texas Politics. Start with the Governor, then Lieutenant Governor and so on. Find out if they can be trusted, keep a Santa Claus list, who’s naughty and who’s nice. Once you have found out about the top State officials, go to DPS and check them out. When you have done that, get back to me!”

Roy proceeded to get on the website and found it was grouped in Categories like Government with subcategories of State, County, City, and notable towns. Another was Law Enforcement, with subcategories of State, County, City, and Notable town. The State Law Enforcement subcategory included The Department of Public Safety, The Texas Rangers, and the Texas National Guard.

He touched the picture of the Governor, it didn’t take long to see that he was a genuine Christian Gentleman, next was the Lieutenant Governor, he was also clean, the Attorney General was next, he wasn’t lily white, he was a lawyer after all, but he had no connection to the Training Center. It was only taking ten seconds to determine each person’s guilt or innocence. He then started on the Senate, checking the Senators from those counties in and around Titus County. He found two that were taking money an occasionally fucking the young girls at the Training Center. Both were looking forward to Sunday! He did check those Senators involved in Oversight of Law enforcement Committees, they were clean. Next he did the same with House members finding four in the area who were also looking forward to the auction on Sunday. He checked the committees, but didn’t find any other evidence of collusion.

Staying with the theory that bad cops in west Texas wouldn’t have anything to do with an Organization in Northeast Texas, until he remembered that there were Hispanic girls who didn’t seem to speak English. So he included the border Counties in his search. Sure enough he found three Sheriffs and ten Deputies involved in procuring illegal alien girls. In fact two of the Deputies and one of the Sheriffs were bringing a bus load of girls to the Training Center and would arrive around ten o’clock in the morning!

All of the top DPS officers were clean, as well as the officers assigned to the Northeast. All of the top Rangers were clean except for the one he had already found. Unfortunately there were two DPS patrol officers who were involved!

Lastly Roy checked the Texas National Guard leadership, once again paying particular attention to those Guard units in the counties of Titus and the surrounding counties. He didn’t find anyone involved!

He checked all the same counties’ politicians and found some more people getting benefits, money or both. It had taken over an hour but he had his Santa list and several people weren’t getting presents for Christmas this year, they would be getting a surprise however!

He touched Brent’s photo and said,

“Brent, I’ve finished the list.” They quickly went over it and discussed what to do next. They decided it was best to start at the top and let him get things organized. Brent had a request, he wanted to be with the Spirit and meet the witnesses and when contact with the Governor was made! Roy was unsure, he wanted to meet Brent, but having another person know what he was capable of was dangerous to his freedom and his health! Roy broke the connection and sought out his Mom and Sister in person this time.

The discussion went on for almost an hour, in the final analysis it came down to doing what was best for the girls caged in their cells and on the bus. Twenty new girls meant twenty girls being auctioned to make room. The best chance was being actively involved, being with Brent when the bust went down!

Touching Brent’s photo he exacted some promises,

“Brent, before giving you directions we want some promises, will you promise to keep our identities a secret as much as you are able, no press, no credit, we want you to take all of the credit! Promise us that only you will be our liaison with everyone else! Promise that you will be extra cautious and on the lookout for tails and tracking devices on your car. Promise that I will be allowed to accompany you on the bust!

“Spirit and everyone else, I, Lieutenant Brent Martin promise to keep your identities secret in all aspects unless having to do so for some very important reason, even then I promise to consult with you before disclosure. I promise to keep your names from the press and will be your liaison with others. I also promise to inspect my truck for tracking devices and keep vigilant in watching for being tailed. The last one is a problem! Bringing a civilian into these dangerous circumstances is totally against the rules. It is likely to be very dangerous, there could and very likely will be gunfire!”

“That is one of the reasons I need to be along on the raid. If we take my camera with a telephoto lens I can take a picture of a person shooting and incapacitate him or her.”

“Alright, good reason! I promise to let you come along!”

“Check your truck for tracking devices, I’ll be back in fifteen minutes.”